Forum Column - By Michael Berenbaum - If we call the diplomacy under way a return to the "peace process," we are confused by t...

SAN DIEGO - Some observations - some strange, some funny, some sad - from the first week in the trial of David A. Westerfield,...

SAN FRANCISCO - During her tumultuous defense of a drug dealer, Mill Valley attorney Maureen Kallins got into shouting matches...

Column by Garry Abrams - In Nikki v Mickey, the score is now 1-0 in favor of the plaintiff. On Friday, former New York...

When Venture Law Group was founded in 1993, its mantra was to handle only corporate matters - no litigation allowed. That stra...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge James Warren won't rule until June 17 on whether attorneys Marjorie Knoller and Robert No...

SANTA ANA - Attorney, pharmacist, hospital administrator, civilian air patrolman, balloonist, university dean and Coast Guard ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Protesters' shrill whistles and bullhorn chants failed to deter Hastings College of the Law directors from una...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that insurance companies do not engage in the unauthorized practice of law when ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles attorney Hillel Chodos says his brother's book on the law of fiduciary duty should be on every law...

LOS ANGELES - Under the spotlight, Courtney Love has changed from vulgar punk rocker to critically acclaimed actor to her curr...

WASHINGTON - Early in 1999, U.S. District Judge Fern M. Smith of San Francisco saw a letter soliciting candidates for the job ...

Unlawful Detainer Registry Inc. is a California corporation that obtains data on residential tenants, compiles it into a datab...

Focus Column - By Marcelius McRae and Joel Athey - You are sitting at your desk when you receive a telephone call from a long-...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Last month, our nation celebrated Memorial Day, a day dedicated to those who lost their li...

Without his well-known sense of humor, Los Angeles attorney William G. Baumgaertner would have had a hard time recently defend...

Column by Robert S. Mann - In medieval England, if you were fortunate enough to live in an enclosed structure and even more fo...

Column by Tara Castro Narayanan - It goes without saying that an item of damage specifically excluded on an insurance policy c...

After listening to a presentation at a golf club about a proposed Orange County housing development, local resident Deborah S....

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge ordered government prosecutors Thursday to turn over to defense attorneys copies of 50 compute...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Deputy Attorney General Zaven V. Sinanian and Gloria L. White-Brown, a South Coast...

SACRAMENTO - For the first time in the 90-year-history of the office of the Legislative counsel, the California Legislature ap...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors filed 18 felony charges Thursday against a Mission Viejo temporary office worker accused of planting r...

LOS ANGELES - Cleveland's Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue has expanded its Southern California intellectual property litigation...

Forum Column - By David M. Reeder - A newly enacted general order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Cal...

LOS ANGELES - Two anti-racketeering lawsuits, a pair of paternity suits, a potential grand jury investigation and numerous civ...

SAN DIEGO - A defense attorney for David A. Westerfield on Thursday continued to probe the parents of slain second-grader Dani...

LOS ANGELES - There is no litigation hell quite like that offered by the Catholic Church, which in the past decade has resorte...

SAN FRANCISCO - Declaring that they are not "copyright thieves," five owners of the controversial digital recording device Rep...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fathers Day came a week early for an East Bay man who will be allowed to parent a six-year-old boy despite the...